‘Rectified’...Is India Turning Right?

Ayodhya and economic liberalisation—an accidental coupling of two disparate events, anchored in a deeper logic—started the ‘righting’ of India in earnest. Was this a dangerous veering off from a natural orbit, or the surfacing of an innate nature? Modi’s claim on centrestage now comes as an inflection point. Two columnists of opposite persuasions interrogate it.